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March 2008

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• Infrastructure

  Comcast still in trouble

  03.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In the last issue of “Urban Lifestyle Report - New Media” we wrote about Comcast and their questionable tactics in trying to fight file sharing and the concept of network neutrality. Now according to MarketingVOX they are changing network practices […]

• Video

  Outsourcing your life to maintain a 4 hour work week

  03.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This book isn’t new, but the concept still feels very new and interesting. Just like this clip from Maholo Daily with an interview with the author of the book.

  Also check out his blog here.
  - Tomas Nihlén, Urban Lifestyle

  Technorati Tags: four hour work week

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• Music

  The music industry is going mad

  03.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  TechCrunch writes that Warner Music wants to put a tax on music. Money from the fees is to be centralized in a pool lead by industry veteran Jim Griffin from which money will be distributed to different artists. The goal is to collect 5 dollars per month from everybody. This would generate a total of […]

• Social media

  Toluu - a quick review

  03.30.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I finally got hold of an invite to Toluu. First impression, this could really be a hit but it’s still a long way to get there. Since it’s still a beta they got alot of bugs to fix. For instance I can’t deselect the option to not notify me via e-mail everytime one of my […]

• Social media

  Social feeds

  03.29.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Toluu is the latest web-service for all your rss-feeds. Suppose you can call it a social-rss-reader. Simply because it lets you share your feeds with others in order to discover new feeds, see which feeds your friends are reading, and even discover people who share your same interests.
  To emigrate your feeds from your preferred rss-reader […]

• Mobile communication

  Motorola splitting into two companies

  03.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Motorola is splitting into two companies; one will focus on handsets & accessories and the other one will focus on wireless broadband networks and enterprise level communications. They think this might help them since they are struggling with their handsets, having a difficult time producing another hit product.

  - Tomas Nihlén, Urban Lifestyle
  Blogged with the […]

• Internet video

  YouTube Video Analytics

  03.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday YouTube revealed YouTube Insight, a new free tool that enables all accountholders and uploaders to view detailed statistics about their submitted videos. Additional and in-depth info @ the YouTube Blog.
  - Andreas DF
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• Media

  About the death of the newspaper

  03.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The blog Social Media writes today about the death of the newspaper, and they also quote Eric Alterman in The New Yorker:
  “As early as May, 2004, newspapers had become the least preferred source for news among younger people. According to “Abandoning the News,” published by the Carnegie Corporation, thirty-nine per cent of respondents under the […]

• Blog, Social media

  ‘My Starbucks Idea’

  03.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Starbucks recently launched an online community where customers can submit ideas on how the company can improve its services and products. People are encouraged to share thoughts and voting is then tallied online with each idea assigned a point value.  A great and courageous move by Starbucks and hopefully the company will have sense enough […]

• Trend

  P2P is the future

  03.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recently the two broadcasters took a new step in the right direction by releasing their work on Bit Torrent, DRM-free. First of was the Swedish pc-magazine called Allt om PC. Their latest issue is now available on The Pirate Bay, link to the torrent. Last week No Starch Press released the joyful news that their […]

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